Dark Visitor Server

What is Dark Visitor Server?

About

Dark Visitor Server is a developer helper operated by Dark Visitors. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Dark Visitor Server visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Developer helpers generally visit websites on direct behalf of a user who is evaluating some feature or attribute. Visits can be one-off or part of a larger crawl.

Type

Developer Helper
Used by developers to test website functionality

Detail

Operated By Dark Visitors
Last Updated 1 day ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Dark Visitor Server
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Country of Origin

United States
Dark Visitor Server normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

Top Visited Website Categories

Travel and Transportation
People and Society
Jobs and Education
Real Estate
Arts and Entertainment
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Robots.txt

Should I Block Dark Visitor Server?

Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.

How Do I Block Dark Visitor Server?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block Dark Visitor Server or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Dark Visitor Server/1.0; +https://darkvisitors.com) 
# robots.txt
# This should block Dark Visitor Server

User-agent: Dark Visitor Server
Disallow: /